Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-12-14
Mistellaueuns Sending.
THE PR0HIBITIONISTS' ADDRESS.

Since the defeat of the prohibition cause
in the election at Atlanta, the prohibition
committee, on behalf of the party in that
city, have issued the following address to
the people of the United States:
The Prohibition party in Atlanta, recog-
nizing the fact that the friends of good
government in other parts of the State
and country have a%nXiously watched the
recent contest here between the bar
rooms and the people, send hereby their
cheerful greetings to all Prohibitionists,
and assure them that there is no cause for
Encouragement in the result of Saturdays
election. If it were true that a majority
of the legal voters of the county were with
the whisky party, it would still remain
true that the result of the election was out
a temporary reverse in the slow but up
ward march of civilization.
The whisky party will confuse your ears
with assertions as to the cause and mean
ing of that result and the purposes of our
party in the future. But the official organ
~ization, backed up by every vote in the
Prohibition party, declares to you the fol-
lowing proposition:
First. In the election of 1885 we cast for
prohibition a majority of the largest vote
ever polled before in Fulton county. In
the election of 1887 we polled a larger one
than in 1885.
Second. We solemnly protest that the
majority obtained in this election by the
whisky party was the result of stupendous
frauds, and that out Of 1000 votes regis
tered for the election more than 1000 were
not entitled to the ballot, without count
ing the repeaters.
Third. Under a two years limit of pro-
hibition, hampered by unexpired licenses,
which brought down the time to scarcely
more than a year, we were opposed not
merely by the ordinary law breakers and
criminals, but by the systematic efforts to
defeat the constitutional will of the major
ity. Nevertheless, even then, imperfect
as was the scant opportunity accorded US,
so benefcent was the influence OF this just
and needful law, that under its operations:
Crime in the court records ceased its reg
ular constant growth and diminished more
than one-half.
Pauperism and vagrancy almost entire
ly disappeared from our community.
Drunkenness became so rare that with a
hundred thousand visitors crowded in one
day during the Piedmont exposition into
this city of seventy thousand people, the
public peace wa not once disturbed, ana
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Business p]rospered, debts were paid,
and the prosecution of small unlitlgated
suits enormously diminished.
The banking capital of the city far more
than doubled.
A million dollars was addedto her man.
ufacturing interests.
Our property largely advanced in val
ues.
Our population was enormously in
creased. ,
Our schools were greatly enlarged and
still remained insufficient to suit the in
creased attendance.
Public expenditures for public improve
ment surpassed what it ever was before,
and yet the public funds were not ex-
hausted.
In every department of business indus
try, prosperity reigned, and above all peace
and happiness came to women ana little
children.
Fourth. 1t was because of this constant
ly increasing evidence and the beneficial
| effects of this salutary and wholesome law,
that the whisky ring centered its strength
in Atlanta. We do solemnly declare that
the whisky business in general is the n e
my of civilized society, and that in the
contest just closed Atlanta was lighting
the good fight of civilization against all
the hosts of its enemies.
Fifth. We assure our friends everywhere
that we will make no compromise in this
issue. We declare that it is wrong to sell
liquor, and therefore, wrong to sanction or
approve the sale of liquor. Whatever OF
evil there is in the business is shared in by
the government, which authorizes the bus
mess. Whatever of wrong there is in the
government that legalizes the traffic in
liquor must be borne by those who consent
to the law. AS for us, we will not touch
the unholy thing. We are, to a man,
agreed that there is but one way to regu-
late whisky, and that is to prohibit the
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